By Larry Fitzmaurice
on July 19, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. EDT

-- Tim Cohen, frontman of the Fresh & Onlys, has a new solo album, The Glad Birth of Love, credited to his alias Magic Trick, out on Empty Cellar. The LP gets a limited release today, July 19 (which, by the way, is Cohen's birthday), with the regular release set for August 23. Members of Thee Oh Sees, the Sandwitches, Citay, and more guest. Listen to a piece of "Daylight Moon" here.

-- Skinny-jeans rapper Theophilus London's debut LP, Timez Are Weird These Days, comes out today via Warner Bros. The album features guest vocals from Holly Miranda and Tegan and Sara's Sara Quin. Stream the whole album at Spinner.

-- Another album out today: UK sound system DJ Norman Jay releases Norman Jay MBE Presents: Good Times 30th Anniversary Edition today on Strut. The deep-digging mix features cuts from Curtis Mayfield, Ted Taylor, and the Detroit Experiment, among others.

By Larry Fitzmaurice
on November 30, 2010 at 3:35 p.m. EST

Ben Goldberg of indie label Ba Da Bing and singer/songwriter Simon Joyner have teamed up to start a new record subscription series under the banner of Grapefruit Records. The subscription series includes four full-length LPs released quarterly, as well as a hard-shell box to house the releases from each year.

By Tom Breihan
on July 1, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. EDT

-- Billboard reports that a new Prince album called 20Ten will enter the world in a non-traditional manner. In the UK, 2.5 million copies of the album will come packaged with the July 10 issues of the newspapers The Daily Mail and The Daily Record. In Germany, they'll come with the August issue of Rolling Stone. All those publications will also include interviews with Prince.

-- After two albums on Matador, ramshackle Seattle roots band the Cave Singers (featuring Derek Fudesco of Murder City Devils/Pretty Girls Make Graves) have signed to Jagjaguwar. This summer, they'll hit the studio with Sunn O)))/Black Mountain producer Randall Dunn.

-- On July 20 in the U.S. and July 19 in the UK, Jagjaguwar will release Beyond the Valley of the Ultrahits, a vinyl/download LP from experimental veteran Richard Youngs. According to a press release, this is Youngs' effort to make a pop album.